Annual report of JHMHP 2018

We are delighted to present you the annual report of Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy (JHMHP) 2018. By the end of this year, there are 34 experts from 7 countries sitting on board with 16 new members in 2018. 51 articles have been published in 2018, including two featured columns "Meet the Experts: the Cutting Edge in Hospital Management" & "Meet the Professor". Currently, one focused issue is in progress and planned to be published in 2019. For more information, please find the detailed annual report as below.

Across the United States, reducing readmissions has been a concern of most hospitals, some of which have been at risk for having a higher than expected, 30-day readmission ratio for a particular physical health condition. A recent review conducted by Ms. Ivy Benjenk and Prof. Jie Chen from School of Public Health, University of Maryland has shown that care coordination between hospital and community after the discharge, which includes mental health therapy and community mental health services and educations, can significantly reduce the 30-day readmission rate (1).

An internationally renowned academic executive, thoracic surgeon, researcher and author, Larry R. Kaiser, MD, FACS currently serves as the CEO of Temple University Health System, Senior Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, and Dean of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.

The marriage market pressure is expected to exert a bigger impact on households with a son approaching marriage age. Using the CHNS, we estimate the equation (I) with various age cohorts from 1–5 to 26–30 to gauge the heterogeneous effects and draw their marginal effects in Figure 3. The growing marginal effects of the interaction term (sex ratio * first child being son) suggest that the marriage market pressure becomes more intensified as a son grows up.

Assessment of general practitioners’ interests in expediting wait lists for spine surgical consultation with use of allied health professionals—results of a pilot study

Overall, there was dissatisfaction among respondents regarding the course of treatment for non-urgent LBP patients. Specifically, 48 (84%) of GPs admitted to experiencing personal frustration with the current referral process to spine surgeons. A large majority of respondents [52 (91%)] admitted personal frustration with long wait-times for spine surgeon assessment of their patients, with 55 (96%) stating their patients had expressed similar annoyance with the long waiting period (Table 2).

Prof. Stephen M. Hahn: relentlessly pursuing the mission to end cancer in the world

Cancer, being one of the leading causes of death worldwide, is causing a great burden in the overall healthcare industry. According to National Institutes of Health, the United States would be stormed by an estimated 1,735,350 number of new cancer cases together with 609,640 deaths from this deadly disease (1).